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They Just Gave Themselves a Raise… While Asking Madison for Money
The Grapevine · Tue Sep 22, 2026
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It's your boy Ray Nitty, Prince of the City.
You already know.
It's time for that extended lunch break, man.
Y'all know I'm just holding it down for a couple weeks.
Til Viv's view will be filling this spot y'all.
She gonna be bringing some powerful conversations.
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Powerful.
She gonna be bringing some powerful conversations in this slot with Viv views.
I'm just holding it down a little bit y'all.
So this time I like to just, you know, take my time with it man.
I like to slow it down.
Turning up for a little bit get serious On the extended menu today, man, we have a few things we're gonna talk about a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial You can text that number as well All right shots out to everybody that kicked it with us on the lunch break shots out to maybe Shannon
We had an amazing conversation, man.
We was talking about the filters.
The filters of life that we were.
And we gave our cousins, you know, our family some homework.
We gave everybody some homework to do, okay?
So on the extended menu, we want to get into some other things, all right?
Gonna run through all what are we gonna be talking about today, right?
So we're gonna be getting into a Kenosha bar shooting what actually happened Some video we gonna get to a little later We gonna talk about that then we want to get into Milwaukee's 2027 budget The 2.26 billion dollar plan.
All right, we're gonna talk about the numbers
Right.
It's probably gonna take us some time.
It's probably gonna take us some time because it sound like.
Somebody call and check me if I'm wrong.
I know Mark Chambers will be quick to call it and get on folk when they speaking wrong, but it looked like.
I don't know.
I'm seeing they up for the order.
Common Council is up for another increase.
Pay increase it look like we won't talk about that.
Is it true?
Is it not true?
What's the real facts around it?
Because I do remember a couple years ago or something.
A vote for a raise was voted on.
So let's get into the facts about that when we do have some time.
But before we get into that, let's go ahead and get into this video from Kenosha.
as we get ready to start today.
breaking news out of Kenosha this morning.
We now know that one person is dead and a suspect is in custody following a deadly shooting that started at a local bar and then turned into an officer involved shooting this morning.
We are now joined live by Kenosha County beat reporter Ben Hansen.
Ben, I know you've been on this story all morning long.
We just got this pretty detailed press release from Kenosha Police and you're also talking to folks who.
live nearby the scene as as to what they've witnessed in all of this.
So let's start with the latest from Kenosha Police.
What are they telling us about this investigation?
Yeah, exactly.
So Kenosha police are now confirming with us that this is a fatal shooting that happened late yesterday night at shenanigans bar right behind your tavern.
I'll give you a kind of look at the scene.
We can still see police tape up around here, but let me get into the information behind this press release.
It happened late Sunday night, like I said, at around 8 30 near the corner of 52nd and 25th.
That's where shenanigans is.
Officers responded to shots fired at shenanigans tavern.
They found a 33 year old man who died from being shot inside the bar.
They were saying the 45 year old male suspect ran from the scene and then when officers responded to the scene, they found that suspect and that suspect shot at Kenosha police when they arrived.
Those shots didn't hit any police.
They only hit the squad car and as of now, no, we know or we're not being told that any Kenosha police were hurt.
They were saying that these shots just hit the side of the
squad car.
And so police shot at the suspect back.
Some neighbors saying that it was over 20 shots that were fired out.
He was arrested.
after Kenosha police shot at him, the neighbors were saying that this suspect was shot in the leg or the ankle.
Kenosha police arrested him and Kenosha police are reporting in that press release that we got that he is still alive.
And so both the officer involved shooting and the shooting inside of this bar are being investigated.
There's a press conference later today where we will try to get more information for you viewers.
But we're still trying to get a lot of information, not only from the Kenosha police,
but also information from neighbors, neighbors who had to live through this yesterday night.
We were talking to Stephanie Redisk, a neighbor that's just down the block that way and was right near where the suspect was arrested.
She was saying she was watching just TV last night and she heard all these gunshots.
She said she heard about 20 of them just ringing out right next to her house and she said she ducked for cover.
She was fully under the windows, not really knowing what was going on.
She heard shouting between.
What she thinks is the suspect and police shouting back and forth.
And then she didn't really know when to get back up.
She said that she didn't get any communication from Kenosha police about when it was safe to leave her house when it was safe to get back up.
So she kind of made that determination herself, but overall she's just heartbroken about the situation.
It's a lot going on in Kenosha too.
I'm not mistaken.
We have.
Some footage of when the officers actually pulled up as well Just to give you all an idea of the chaos that was going on first and foremost rest in peace to the person that Lost their life Now seeing a lot of my folks in Kenosha man seeing like this dude was a solid dude.
I didn't know him personally
But seeing pictures of him out in community Doing a bunch of stuff out there Kenosha man.
So thoughts and prayers Goes out to everybody out there in Kenosha that is dealing with this so we'll get into what actually Well, not necessarily what actually happened what we're hearing or what is being reported that happened as they stated
Around 8 30 p.m.
Sunday Kenosha police responded to shenanigans bar and grill near 52nd Street and 25th Ave were reports of shot fired officer found 33 year old on tarot and tarot Casper Medina inside with multiple gunshot wounds He died at the scene despite life-saving efforts Medina was a father of three
Born and raised in Kenosha family and friends described him as outgoing deeply connected to the community One childhood friend put it plainly.
You can't walk around Kenosha or go to a bar go anywhere without knowing who Casper is This is a So sad situation man because sounds like this put a huge
a huge ripple in the community of Kenosha.
So once again, thoughts and prayers go out to them.
It was a shootout that followed.
I can't remember where I saw the video, but it was a video.
Of what happened when the officers pulled up says the suspect 45 year old.
Adam threat, Threlkold of Milwaukee fled the bar.
Oh, you got it.
All right, let's you play it.
All right, let's go ahead and check the video.
And it was just so many, so rapidly.
Breaking news at five bullets fly in Kenosha, a homicide and a police shooting, what we're learning about the suspect and the crime scene.
And that's where we're going to begin this Monday at five, a fatal tavern shooting that led to a shootout with police.
Let's get right out to Ben Hansen.
Ben, a press conference took place about an hour ago.
What did you find out?
Yeah, we have learned a lot more about that incident from yesterday night.
We also have body cam now when Kenosha police called in gunfire from a man who allegedly just killed a 33 year old at a Kenosha bar.
Here's
And that's quite a scene from last night as you viewers can see right now around eight thirty Sunday night.
Once again, suspect forty five year old Adam.
Threlkald.
T H R E L K E L D of Milwaukee.
Fled to the bar on foot.
and about a block away near 24th Avenue and 53rd Street, open fire on responding officers hitting a squad car.
Two officers returned fire and struck him.
No officers were injured, as we just heard.
Who's
Fox six?
Shout out to Fox six for that video.
Body and dash camera.
Video captured the exchange.
A nearby resident described hearing aftermath through her window.
The suspect's screaming.
Why were you shooting so low?
I just wanted to die.
Why didn't you kill me?
After being hit in the ankle.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we'll get more into this story right here on the award winning one on one, seven true.
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It's your boy Ray Neady, Prince of the City, holding it down for Aunt Viv.
Aunt Viv with Viv's view will be filling this slot from 2 to 4 PM in the near future, y'all.
So I'm just, you know, it's like being in the gym, getting some shots up, you know, working on a couple of moves I've been working on, a couple of stories that I've been working on.
Right now we are talking about.
The.
Situation that happened in Kenosha 833 212 1017 is the number to die.
This sound like.
The shooting happened inside an establishment.
Sound like it happened inside an establishment.
I've not been to this spot.
I've did plenty shows and Kenosha plenty shows and racing.
And.
You know, I don't think I've ever.
Felt like I didn't see where security was checking people at the door like we have a. Situation here where people are constantly getting into venues with weapons.
Causing... And once again, guns and alcohol just don't mix well.
People drinking a lot, emotions surfacing, traumas coming to the surface, mental illness coming to the surface, while drinking and all of these things.
It's no telling why this person...
Took this innocent person's life.
I was looking on Facebook.
I was looking on Facebook to see if I could.
See who the suspect was.
You know.
Because we hear a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17.
That's the number to doubt.
We hear.
And I'll read it again.
We're talking about the situation that happened in Kenosha at the spot called shenanigans or bar called shenanigans.
All right.
The suspect was.
35 years old and he said, why were you shooting so low?
Why didn't you just kill me?
I was ready to die.
All right.
Chief Pattern described Trenkel's criminal history as extensive list in prior arrest for sexual assault, strangulation, suffocation, exposing himself to a child, battery, disorderly conduct, vehicle theft and burglary.
All right.
So what happens now?
Two separate investigations are underway.
The Kenosha Police Department is investigating the bar homicide itself while the Racine County Sheriff's Office is leading the investigation into the officer involved shooting per standard Wisconsin protocol for police use of force.
The two involved officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, also standard procedure, not a sign of wrong doing on its own.
Charges against Threckwood.
are pending as this tape.
A man with a documented history that serious was out in a neighborhood bar on a Sunday night.
Whatever the specific legal reason turns out to be, this is exactly the kind of case that should force a real conversation about why the system tracks or how.
The system tracks and manages.
People's with records like this.
Not as a call for outrage without facts, but just a legitimate question.
This show should keep pressing for an answer on as just my thoughts.
As just my thoughts.
And it's interesting because as I go.
As I go on Facebook.
They show a picture of the suspect.
No, the suspect was 45.
I'm sorry, the victim.
And Tarot was 33.
The suspect was 45.
Looks like this white guy.
This is the shooter.
And.
It looks like a guy of Latino descent.
Makes me wonder, man, I see somebody put something up here.
Let's let's read this.
Tina Cox.
I'm assuming some kin.
Some kin to him.
Maybe this post gives us some insight.
I'm going to read this.
Then we go.
Get into something else.
We're gonna talk about the Milwaukee budget All right We're gonna talk about that but first I'm gonna read this It's obvious the news is out and about He says it's obvious the news is out about Adam.
I want to make a few things clear First I am okay, but if there comes a day when I need help I promise I will ask second
Please do not contact me or my family with questions.
If we want to talk about it, we will, but I personally cannot handle repeating this situation over and over to police, especially the ones that are just being nosy.
Third, please pray for the situation.
Speak his name and ask that God use this time to allow Adam the help he needs and to let God work in his life.
Pray for his body, mind and soul.
And lastly, thank you for all the sweet encouraging.
So this is this person that says it sounds like this person needed help.
Sound like you've been needing help.
Sound.
Like this person been needing help.
Rest in peace to young man, 33 years old, young and tarot who lost his life.
It's kind of like sickening to have to do.
And as we was just having a conversation about sections in the club and bars and all of these things, it's another reason why I don't necessarily and not to live in fear, right?
because that's no way to live.
It's not about living in fear, but it's I can't trust that people will control themselves.
So I don't like uncontrolled environments where I am not in control of the energy that's coming into the space, the energy that's coming into the room.
That's why I'd rather just do something at the crib.
Rather throw a party at the crib and invite real people over that I know.
I ain't saying things can't get tested with somebody, you know, but at least a different type of conversation could be had if conflict comes about.
There's a little different level of understanding the energies in the person.
That you dealing with.
I don't like uncontrolled environments.
OK.
And I don't know how Kenosha does things out there.
No, typically you shouldn't have to feel like, damn.
Did they check anybody, everybody in here for weapons?
You should be able to just go out, have a good time, whether you in a section by yourself or bar by yourself or a section with friends, you should be able to just go out and have a good time.
Far too often, y'all.
Far too often.
It makes me think of our nightlife in Milwaukee.
Makes me think of our nightlife in Milwaukee.
It makes me think of young Tweezy.
Who was out.
Just doing his thing.
What he always do.
throwing parties, working the door, getting his people to a section.
And because somehow society has.
Lower the value of life.
Few folks saw fit.
that this was the perfect time to go try to settle a score.
Get even or something or or slide on the ops.
OK.
And from what they said in that situation, sound like though that car had circled the situation, the club a few times.
Waiting on whoever they was waiting for two people lost their lives that night.
A lot more could have got hit.
And the community once again.
And a family once again pays the ultimate price.
833-212-1017 is the number to dial.
833-212-1017 is the number to dial.
And this is the reasons why I say we need to get ourselves under control because everything
will be blamed on us, especially what's happening downtown.
Everything will be blamed on us, especially what is happening downtown.
The flight of businesses.
Businesses will stop investing downtown if we do not control.
The terrible behavior.
We aren't the only ones misbehaving, but the real conversation is sometimes we take it too far.
And we give folks the ammunition, no pun intended, to use against us.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we're going to get into the Milwaukee's budget.
Did Common Council vote to give themselves another raise?
We'll get into that right here on the award-winning 1017 the truth when we come back What up y'all welcome back welcome back to the award-winning 1017 the truth Truth nation
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Talk about a topic.
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Soon as they hear, don't.
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That was somebody trying to get the tickets one.
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Open your ears.
Man.
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Soon you got to listen a little bit longer.
What Bryson song you been playing?
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That wasn't even a Bryson song, man.
Fleetwood Mac?
What?
Let's talk the money.
I should turn the fan on, because I know it's about to get hot in here.
City Council, don't get mad at me, please.
I am just doing my job.
I'm just doing my... We're gonna play that song when we come back.
What was that, T.I.
doing my job?
I'm just doing my job.
But the word on the street is...
Y'all want another raise downtown at city hall I'm not above getting the facts straight.
I'm just going by what I hear and I'm gonna go into this budget 2027 budget.
Okay We gonna talk about this the top line numbers
Mayor Cavalier Johnson proposed 20 27 budget totals 2.26 billion dollars.
Jesus.
The budget is up 185.4 million or 8.9% from 2026 is 2.076 billion.
But most of that increase.
Is it new day-to-day spending?
I feel like I could just get an idea of where it's going.
Capital Improvement Authority rises 79.9 million.
Debt spending rises 54.4 million.
Excuse me.
And employee retirement spending alone rises $12.2 million.
General city purposes spending, the actual day-to-day operating budget, it rises as much smaller 31.1% million, meaning the headline number isn't inflated by capital projects and fixed obligations.
Not runway operational growth First of all, I didn't even know we could up our budget like that.
We're gonna be close to three billion in a little bit It'd be interesting to see how our budget grew over the time The city started this budget cycle facing a gap approaching a hundred million dollars
Johnson closed it through a quick through a mix of reserve withdrawals, increased revenue.
And spending reductions.
A familiar playbook.
This show has covered before, but Comptroller Bill Christianson's own new five year financial forecast puts a harder number on what's coming.
A 52.5 million dollar gap specifically.
in 2027, growing roughly 104.5 million by 2031, if nothing structurally changes.
We got to get Bill on the line, man.
Y'all know my favorite line.
When I was running for office, I met Bill.
It seemed like a cool dude, man.
Where's the money actually going?
That's where everybody want to know where the hell all the money going Where's it going?
Is it going to Increase pay for elected officials some elected officials that
Viewers and listeners and citizens feel aren't doing the best of jobs.
Some of them running for higher office.
Say that for another topic.
Billy did anything.
Chill.
Where's the money actually going?
Rhodes got the single loudest applause.
nineteen point two million for local road construction in twenty twenty seven up from sixteen point seven million this year.
The largest local roads investment in city history according to Johnson.
That includes seven point two million for street reconstruction and twelve million for the high impact paving asphalt overlays to extend treat like street life.
7.2 million for street reconstruction.
That's not like the bump outs.
We only I don't like them.
I don't like them.
I don't like the bump outs, but are they really calm and traffic?
And maybe that's not what the 7.2 million for street reconstruction.
Yes, I'm assuming.
All right.
I'm just saying that's what it sounds like.
12 million for high impact paving.
The asphalt overlays to extend street life.
We need to extend the asphalt life.
Because that get dug right up as soon as they drop them plows on it, man.
And that little pot hole be dug right the hell out.
Back falling in it.
I got shock problems right now.
Need some front end work.
The funding also buys equipment.
A third asphalt warmer and a fifth pothole fill in machine, which Johnson's office says could fill 1800 potholes a year on its own.
I mean, how many potholes do we got?
Do we got a pothole count?
And how many years it'll take to fill them all?
How many get created here?
Don't forget, there is a website that you can record the potholes to.
That's what we need to do.
Make sure you record the potholes.
Mayor Johnson's own framing after a year of relentless resident feedback.
One of the consistent things that I've heard, no matter where I went in Milwaukee was roads, roads, roads, roads.
Roads have always been the feedback.
Roads and violence.
This ain't just Chevy.
Now I feel like it's gotten a little bit worse.
I feel like Potholes has gotten worse.
What do we need to up the material that we use?
What's going on?
Somebody call in and talk to me.
What's going on with the rose?
Is it the material that we use?
Do we need to switch products?
The direct connection.
Where the money is genuinely tight.
We talked about it.
We talked about it, y'all.
Directly connects to what this show has covered before.
Employee retirement spending is now budgeted at approximately drumroll.
Please.
I feel like on the show, I said it was going to be a hundred and something million.
But now this year it is approximately two hundred and seventy three point four million.
Part of what Urban Milwaukee calls a major piece of the city's long term financial challenge.
It is the same structural pension squeeze.
This show flagged.
Eating into flexibility months ago 2020 go back to the 2020 pension deal We don't talk about it We do not talk about it.
We just keep bringing up old potholes.
We got this gap.
We got this we got this that but we don't talk about How so many people got these amazing lump sums and it's not there for
It's not their fault that somebody offered them a sweet deal.
All of us were taken too.
Brother Z trying to be funny.
That's literally what he told me.
Let's go talk to brother my D real quick.
Brother my D how you feeling?
Can you hear me, uh, wanna Frank Nitty?
I ain't Frank Nitty.
Don't do that to me.
I said can you hear me, brother?
Yes, sir.
I hear you loud and clear, but I'm not, I'm not Frank Nitty, brother, my D. I'm right now.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, Frank, my bad.
Damn!
My bad.
Then he said, oh, Frank, my bad.
It's all good.
We gonna get it together, man.
How you doing?
Talk to me, brother.
I'm blessed by the best.
What's your name?
My brother son.
Get it right.
It's Ray Nitty.
Ray Nitty.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ray Nitty.
Man, I get some, uh, y'all name stuff is unbelievable.
Yeah.
I want to call you.
I'm in my dump truck now and you're educated young man.
Uh, infrastructure ain't going nowhere infrastructure ain't going nowhere.
I build data centers.
We're doing highways.
We do it for the soap.
The whole point of the matter is, it's not the material.
The reason why you got pottos is the temperature change in the climate.
And the reason why they go to Asphalt, Asphalt is a lot cheaper than doing cement.
So I'm originally from the south side of Chicago where the Rookey streets look way better than
this Chicago.
So, hey, hey, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, my brother, no, no, Joe, you won't follow.
I think I can get you to take you to the West Side of Chicago.
I'll show you, I'll show you what
I want to take you to the city anyway, man.
You're a young man.
asphalt is designed, it ain't nothing but concrete retiring.
It's designed for hot climates.
But if you know there's a lot of cities like California, Florida, that's got a lot of heat, if the heat get too hot it'll sink too.
So it's, it's like, it's like what y'all say, what, what, what pools they cause, uh, cash 22, but C minute is too expensive.
It's too expensive because, uh, uh, you know, so, so what they're doing is they got to, they got to do what the federal government tells them to do because the federal government, like, like, like, like if you, if you come up with $10 million, the federal government going to match what you come up with, they give us
so much money towards what we call infrastructure.
So infrastructure cannot, infrastructure cannot go.
Okay.
So when I was at the data center, there was 389 dump trucks.
So we, we, we keep America moving.
We, we do the roads.
We build, we build the schools.
Uh, you know, infrastructure can't go away.
That's how the economy, that's how the economy moves.
Our dump trucks cross anywhere from
$190 to $350,000.
I
question
to break it?
All
I got a question for Brother My D right on the other side of these messages.
What up y'all welcome back welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios It's your boy Ray Nitty holding it down brother Z got me on the production and sound we'll read it after brother Z we'll read it after brother my D Thank you for holding on thank you for holding on man.
I know you are doing a thing on the highways and byways for some so my question brother my question
I heard you say asphalt is for warmer cities, right?
Warmer areas, right?
But it's cheaper, right?
Yes, it is.
Is it not costing us more in the long term to just keep using asphalt versus just laying the concrete one time and get a
a longer lifetime out of it than just millions and millions and millions in asphalt over and over again.
You raised a great point, my brother.
And then you got to understand that it's a monopoly.
It's a monopoly that the asphalt plants, they're billionaires.
So they got to make money too.
And what they do is they buy in to the politicians.
And that's the same thing y'all talking about.
You gotta understand where the real monopoly works.
It's no money in long term.
It's money in short term.
And we're not all for the best interest in the people.
Because you got federal dollars that you get every year.
And if they're not allocated, then the fans say, you know what?
You know what?
We gave you 500 million and you only used 350 of that.
We're going to take 150 million and we're going to get at Michigan.
So it's a monopoly, young man.
It's a monopoly.
Uh, uh, you know, you got politicians running, you got politicians running America, not business men.
So I was the only business man that got in there.
And that's why people don't like him because they don't understand life is a business.
Life is a business.
Church is a business.
And you thinking like a politician.
Hey, we're gonna we're gonna look at the long term, but that's not that's not how it goes.
It's a catch 22.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
Same with the Koch Brothers.
Scott Walker gave the Koch Brothers what they wanted because they funded this campaign.
about the million.
The million is in the billion.
So, you know, I do I do a lot of work for Michael.
Michael's is multi millionaires.
So, you know what I'm saying, we got Frank maybe sitting at the table with thousands, but we got Michael sitting at the table with billions.
Who is you gonna listen to?
I gotta feed mouth now.
I feel you 100%.
Man, thank you for holding on with us, man.
It's raining.
I love you, man.
So that was a strong request.
I love you, my brother.
Call me anytime and I got you.
Yes, sir.
We love you, my brother.
Love you too, boss, man.
Appreciate you calling in.
Bye, Frank.
You know, I might just be frank for the day to hear it with you.
We don't get it right though, my dear.
It's Ray Niddy.
You know what I'm saying?
Not Frank.
I get it though.
But you have all your hair.
I wasn't even gonna say it this time.
I said it for you.
I wasn't even gonna say it.
But my top is not dropped.
That's all I say.
Man, we talking about that's the answer I wanted to hear.
That it's a monopoly.
Exactly.
It had to be a reason.
Why we don't just fix the actual problem?
I always thought it was strange that we would just drop asphalt in potholes, not fix them.
Because then we'd take the damn plows and scrape all the little asphalt right out of it.
So who's the asphalt company in Wisconsin?
That's who we want to know.
I told y'all my mother, we want a piece of every blood clad thing.
All these companies that got these sweet deals, man, that's just eating.
Eating off of us.
We need a kickback.
I'm sorry, man.
I couldn't be mere.
They're going to be like, he running Milwaukee like he Lennox.
He think he Lennox.
But now everybody keeps eating off of us.
And we pay the price.
There's plenty of asphalt contractors.
I bet.
Who get the most?
It's one company to get a lot, I'm sure.
Shouts out to Ebony.
She has an asphalt company, Black Woman.
Black owned asphalt business.
Shouts out to Ebony.
Maybe she can come tell us.
as well.
But how?
Why don't we just lay the concrete, pour the concrete down, actually fix the roads?
Why not?
We've been putting on bandages for 20 plus years, fam.
Millions in asphalt.
What the hell are we doing?
And politicians want to raise.
And they want a raise.
Some say a second raise, but let's continue the budget because we're going to get into the whole raise of it all.
All right.
We're going to get into the whole raise of it all.
Like I said, the direct.
This directly connects to what this show has covered before.
We've talked about it.
Employee retirement.
I told y'all go look into the 2020 pension scandal.
It's some people retiring.
They getting a lump sum payment.
One person got like four million dollars.
Lump sum.
And then still had a reoccurring, amazing policy payout.
So much so.
that Tom Emmett, the county executive at the time in 2020, in 2000, it looked so bad, he had to say, I, I, I'll forfeit my payout.
And he was forced to resign.
So, you know, I'm pissed.
He had to be.
Y'all made me forfeit my payout and then I had to resign Millions of dollars we went through the timeline we went through the people who got millions millions of people Not millions of people millions of dollars Somebody said asphalt last maybe 15 years every construction company knows that the workers shake their heads
It's like 15 years.
But what kind of asphalt we using the hell up here?
Fifteen.
Melody.
What educated me on what types of asphalt is because I didn't see the asphalt last 15 years in Milwaukee yet.
15 years.
Where's the money genuinely tight the pensions 273.4 million All right when we come back y'all we gonna get into more of where the money is tight right here on the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth
What up y'all welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven of truth Live from the American family and sharing studios.
It's your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the city holding it down for I'm Veev I'm Veev with Veev's view will be filling this slot from 2 to 4 p.m.
In the near future y'all So I'm just you know, it's like being in the gym getting some shots up
You know working on a couple moves.
I've been working on a couple stories that I've been working on right now.
We are talking about.
The.
Situation that happened in Kenosha 833 212 1017 is the number to die.
This sound like.
The shooting happened inside an establishment.
Sound like it happened inside an establishment.
I've not been to this spot.
I've did plenty shows and Kenosha plenty shows and Racine and You know, I don't think I've ever Felt like I didn't see where security was checking people at the door like we have a Situation here where people are constantly getting into venues with weapons
Causing.
And once again, guns and alcohol just don't mix well.
People drinking a lot.
Emotion surfacing.
Traumas coming to the surface.
Mental illness coming to the surface while drinking and all of these things.
It's no telling why this person.
Took this innocent person's life.
I was looking on Facebook.
I was looking on Facebook to see if I could.
See who the suspect was.
You know.
Because we hear a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17.
That's the number to doubt.
We hear.
And I'll read it again.
We're talking about the situation that happened in Kenosha at the spot called shenanigans, a bar called shenanigans.
All right.
The suspect was.
35 years old and he said, why were you shooting so low?
Why didn't you just kill me?
I was ready to die.
All right.
Chief Pattern described Trenkel's criminal history as extensive list in prior arrest for sexual assault, strangulation, suffocation, exposing himself to a child, battery, disorderly conduct, vehicle theft and burglary.
All right.
So what happens now?
Two separate investigations are underway.
The Kenosha Police Department is investigating the bar homicide itself while the Racine County Sheriff's Office is leading the investigation into the officer involved shooting per standard Wisconsin protocol for police use of force.
The two involved officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, also standard procedure, not a sign of wrong doing on its own.
Charges against Threckwood.
are pending as this tape.
A man with a documented history that serious was out in a neighborhood bar on a Sunday night.
Whatever the specific legal reason turns out to be, this is exactly the kind of case that should force a real conversation about why the system tracks or how.
The system tracks and manages.
People's with records like this.
Not as a call for outrage without facts, but just a legitimate question.
This show should keep pressing for an answer on as just my thoughts.
As just my thoughts.
And it's interesting because as I go.
As I go on Facebook.
They show a picture of the suspect.
No, the suspect was 45.
I'm sorry, the victim.
And Tarot was 33.
The suspect was 45.
Looks like this white guy.
This is the shooter.
And.
It looks like a guy of Latino descent.
Makes me wonder, man, I see somebody put something up here.
Let's let's read this.
Tina Cox.
I'm assuming some kin.
Some kin to him.
Maybe this post gives us some insight.
I'm going to read this.
Then we go.
Get into something else.
We're gonna talk about the Milwaukee budget All right We're gonna talk about that but first I'm gonna read this It's obvious the news is out and about He says it's obvious the news is out about Adam.
I want to make a few things clear First I am okay, but if there comes a day when I need help I promise I will ask second
Please do not contact me or my family with questions.
If we want to talk about it, we will, but I personally cannot handle repeating this situation over and over to police, especially the ones that are just being nosy.
Third, please pray for the situation.
Speak his name and ask that God use this time to allow Adam
the help he needs and to let God work in his life.
Pray for his body, mind and soul.
And lastly, thank you for all the sweet encouraging.
So this is this person that says sounds like this person needed help.
Sound like you've been needing help.
Sound.
Like this person been needing help.
Rest in peace to young man, 33 years old, young, and Tarot who lost his life.
It's kind of like sickening to have to deal.
And as we was just having a conversation about sections in the club and bars and all of these things, it's another reason why I don't necessarily, and not to live in fear, right?
because that's no way to live.
It's not about living in fear, but it's I can't trust that people will control themselves.
So I don't like uncontrolled environments where I am not in control of the energy that's coming into the space, the energy that's coming into the room.
That's why I'd rather just do something at the crib.
Rather throw a party at the crib and invite real people over that I know.
I ain't saying things can't get tested with somebody, you know.
But at least a different type of conversation could be had if conflict comes about.
There's a little different level of understanding the energies and the person.
That you dealing with.
I don't like uncontrolled environments.
OK.
And I don't know how Kenosha does things out there.
No, typically you shouldn't have to feel like, damn.
Did they check anybody, everybody in here for weapons?
You should be able to just go out, have a good time, whether you in a section by yourself or bar by yourself or a section with friends, you should be able to just go out and have a good time.
Far too often, y'all.
Far too often.
It makes me think of our nightlife in Milwaukee.
Makes me think of our nightlife in Milwaukee.
It makes me think of young Tweezy.
Who was out.
Just doing his thing.
What he always do.
throwing parties, working the door, getting his people to a section.
And because somehow society has.
Lower the value of life.
Few folks saw fit.
And this was the perfect time to go try to settle a score.
Get even on some or or slide on the ops.
OK.
And from what they said in that situation, sound like though that car had circled the situation, the club a few times.
Waiting on whoever they was waiting for two people lost their lives that night.
A lot more could have got hit.
And the community once again.
And a family once again pays the ultimate price.
833-212-1017 is the number to dial.
833-212-1017 is the number to dial.
And this is the reasons why I say we need to get ourselves under control because everything
will be blamed on us, especially what's happening downtown.
Everything will be blamed on us, especially what is happening downtown.
The flight of businesses.
Businesses will stop investing downtown if we do not control.
The terrible behavior.
We aren't the only ones misbehaving, but the real conversation is sometimes we take it too far And we give folks the ammunition no pun
intended to use against us.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we're going to get into the Milwaukee's budget.
Did.
Common Council vote to give themselves another raise.
We'll get into that right here on the award winning one on one, seven, the truth when we come back.
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That wasn't even a Bryson song, man.
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What?
Let's talk the money.
I should turn the fan on because I know it's about to get hot in here.
City Council, don't get mad at me, please.
I am just doing my job.
I'm just doing my...
We're gonna play that song when we come back.
Was that TI doing my job?
I'm just doing my job.
But the word on the street is, y'all want another raise downtown at City Hall.
I'm not above getting the facts straight, I'm just going by what I hear.
And I'm gonna go into this budget.
2027 budget, okay?
We gonna talk about this The top line numbers Mayor Cavalier Johnson proposed 2027 budget totals 2.26 billion dollars Jesus The budget is up 185.4 million
or 8.9% from 2026 is 2.076 billion.
But most of that increase.
Is it new day to day spending?
I feel like I could just get an idea of where it's going.
Capital Improvement Authority rises.
79.9 million debt spending rises 54.4 million.
Excuse me.
An employee retirement spending alone rises $12.2 million.
General city purposes spending, the actual day to day operating budget, it rises as much.
Smaller 31.1% million, meaning the headline number isn't inflated by capital projects and fixed obligations, not runway operational growth.
First of all, I didn't even know we could up our budget like that.
We're going to be close to three billion in a little bit.
It'll be interesting to see how our budget grew over the time.
The city started this budget cycle facing a gap approaching $100 million.
Johnson closed it through a quick, through a mix of reserve withdrawals, increased revenue and spending reductions.
A familiar playbook this show has covered before, but Comptroller Bill Christianson's own new five year financial forecast puts a harder number on what's coming.
A 52.5 million dollar gap specifically in 2027, growing roughly 104.5 million by.
2031 if nothing structurally changes we got to get Bill on the line man Y'all know my favorite line when I was running for office.
I met Bill It'll seem like a cool dude man Where's the money actually going that's where everybody want to know where the hell all the money going
Where's it going?
Is it going to?
increase pay for elected officials some elected officials that Viewers and and listeners and citizens feel aren't doing the best of jobs Some of them running for higher office Say that for another topic
Billy did a chill.
Where's the money actually going?
Rhodes got the single loudest applause.
19.2 million for local road construction in 2027 up from 16.7 million this year.
The largest local roads investment in city history, according to Johnson.
That includes 7.2 million for street reconstruction and 12 million for the high impact paving asphalt overlays to extend treat like street life 7.2 million for street reconstruction.
That's not like the bump out I don't like them
I don't like them.
I don't like the bumpouts, but are they really calm and traffic?
And maybe that's not what the 7.2 million for street reconstruction is.
I'm assuming.
All right.
I'm just saying that's what it sounds like.
12 million for high impact paving.
The asphalt overlays to extend street life.
We need to extend the asphalt life.
Because that get dug right up as soon as they drop them plows on it, man.
And that little pothole be dug right the hell out.
Back falling in it.
I got shock problems right now.
Need some front end work.
The funding also buys equipment.
a third asphalt warmer and a fifth pothole filling machine, which Johnson's office says could fill 1800 potholes a year on its own.
I mean, how many potholes do we got?
Do we got a pothole count?
And how many years did it take to fill them all?
How many get created here?
Don't forget, there is a website that you can record the potholes to.
That's what we need to do.
Make sure you record the potholes.
Mayor Johnson's own framing after a year of relentless resident feedback.
One of the consistent things that I've heard, no matter where I went in Milwaukee was roads, roads, roads, roads, roads have always been the feedback roads and violence.
This ain't just Chevy.
Now I feel like it's gotten a little bit worse.
I feel like Potholes has gotten worse.
What we need to up the material that we use?
What's going on?
Somebody call in talk to me what's going on with the rose is it is it the material that we use it do we need to switch products All right The direct connection Where the money is genuinely tight we talked about it
We talked about it, y'all.
It's directly connects to what this show has covered before.
Employee retirement spending is now budgeted at approximately drumroll, please.
I feel like on the show, I said it was going to be a hundred and something million.
But now this year it is approximately two hundred and seventy three point four million part of what urban Milwaukee calls a major piece of the city's long-term financial challenge It is the same structural pension squeeze this show flagged eating into flexibility months ago 2020
Go back to the 2020 pension deal We don't talk about it We do not talk about it.
We just keep bringing up old potholes.
We got this gap.
We got this we got this that but we don't talk about How so many people got these amazing lump sums and it's not there for It's not there for that somebody
Offered them a sweet deal all of us were taken to Brother Z trying to be funny That's literally what he told me Let's go talk to brother my D real quick brother my D. How you feeling?
Okay, so you're me off.
What if I need I ain't Frank needy
Don't do that to me Yes, sir, I hear you loud and clear, but I'm not I'm not Frank nitty brother my D. I'm right Oh Frank my bad.
Oh Frank my bad It's all good we go get it together man.
How you doing talk to me, brother?
I'm blessed by the best.
What's your name?
My brother son.
Get it right.
It's Ray Nitty.
Ray Nitty.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ray Nitty.
Man, I get some, uh, y'all name stuff is unbelievable.
Yeah.
I want to call you.
I'm in my dump truck now and you're educated young man.
Uh, infrastructure ain't going nowhere.
Infrastructure ain't going nowhere.
I build data centers.
We do on highways.
We do it on a soap.
The whole point of the matter is, it's not the material.
The reason why you got pottos is the temperature change in the climate.
And the reason why they go to Asphalt, Asphalt is a lot cheaper than doing cement.
So I'm originally from the south side of Chicago where the Roochy streets look way better than
this Chicago.
So, hey, hey, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, my brother, no, no, Joe, you won't follow.
I think I can get you to take you to the West Side of Chicago.
I'll show you,
I want to take you to the city anyway, man.
You're a young man.
asphalt is designed, it ain't no concrete retiring, it's designed for hot climates.
But if you know there's a lot of cities like California, Florida, that's got a lot of heat, if the heat get too hot it'll sink too.
So it's, it's like, it's like what y'all say, what, what, what pros and cons, uh, cash 22, but see, man, it's too expensive.
It's too expensive because, uh, uh, you know, so, so what they're doing is they gotta, they gotta do what the federal government tells them to do because the federal government, like, like, like, like, if you, if you come up with $10 million, the federal government gonna match what you come up with.
They give us
so much money towards what we call infrastructure.
So infrastructure cannot, infrastructure cannot go.
Okay.
So when I was at the data center, it was 389 dump trucks.
So we, we, we keep America moving.
We, we do the roads.
We build, we build the schools.
Uh, you know, infrastructure can't go away.
That's how the economy, that's how the economy moves.
Our dump trucks cost anywhere from $190 to $350,000.
So,
know, think about
Think about it.
I got a question for you.
Maybe you can help me understand this.
I know we're supposed to go.
Can we go to break it?
Can you stick around for a second so we can go to break it?
We'll be back after these messages, y'all.
I got a question for brother.
be right on the other side of these messages.
What up, y'all?
Welcome back.
Welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one, seven-of-truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios.
It's your boy Ray Nitty holding it down.
Brother Z got me on the production and sound.
We'll read it after, Brother Z. We'll read it after.
Brother, my D. Yes, yes, my brother.
Thank you for holding on.
Thank you for holding on, man.
I know you are doing a thing.
on the highways and byways for some.
So my question, brother, my question.
I heard you say asphalt is for warmer cities, right?
Warmer areas, right?
But it's cheaper, right?
Yes, it is.
Is it not is it not costing us more in the long term to just keep using asphalt versus just.
laying the concrete one time and get a longer lifetime out of it than just millions and millions and millions in asphalt over and over again.
You raised a great point, my brother.
And then you got to understand that it's a monopoly.
It's a monopoly that the asphalt plants, they're billionaires.
So they got to make money too.
And what they do is they buy it.
They buy it.
to the politicians.
And that's the same thing y'all talking about.
You gotta understand what the real monopoly works.
It's no money in long term.
It's money in short term.
And they're not out for the best interest in the people because you got federal dollars that you get every year.
And if they're not allocated, then the fans say, you know what?
You know what?
We gave you 500 million and you only lose three
We're going to take 150 million
Michigan.
So it's a monopoly young man.
It's a monopoly.
You know, you got politicians running.
You got politicians running America, not business men.
So I was the only business man that got in there.
And that's why people don't like him because they don't understand life is a business.
Life is a beauty.
Church is a business.
And you thinking like a politician.
We're gonna we're gonna look at the long term, but that's not that's not how it goes It's a catch 22 Yeah, you know the same with the Koch brothers our Scott Walker gave the Koch brothers what they wanted because they funded this campaign The million's in the billion so you know, I do I do a lot of work for Michael Michael's is multi-millionaires
So, you know what I'm saying, we got Frank maybe sitting at the table with thousands, but we got Michael sitting at the table with billions.
Who is you gonna listen to?
I gotta feed him out now.
I feel you 100%.
Man, thank you for holding on with us, man.
It's rainy.
I love you, man.
So that was a strong request.
I love you, my brother.
Call me anytime and I got you.
Yes, sir.
We love you, my brother.
Love you too, boss, man.
Appreciate you calling in.
Bye, Frank.
You know, I might just be frank for the day to hear it with you.
We don't get it right though, my dear.
It's Ray Niddy.
You know what I'm saying?
Not Frank.
I get it though.
But you have all your hair.
I wasn't even gonna say it this time.
I said it for you.
I wasn't even gonna say it.
But my top is not dropped.
That's all I say.
Man, we talking about that's the answer I wanted to hear.
That it's a monopoly.
Exactly.
It had to be a reason.
why we don't just fix the actual problem.
I always thought it was strange that we would just drop asphalt in potholes, not fix them, because then we'd take the damn plows and scrape all the little asphalt right out of it.
So who's the asphalt company in Wisconsin?
That's who we want to know.
I told y'all, my mother, we want a piece of every blood clot thing.
All these companies that got these sweet deals man.
It's just eating Eating off of us.
We need a kickback.
I I'm sorry man.
I couldn't be mere they gonna be like he he he running Milwaukee like he Lennox He think he Lennox but now I mean everybody keeps eating off of us
and we pay the price.
There's plenty of asphalt contractors.
I bet.
Who get the most?
It's one company to get a lot, I'm sure.
Shouts out to Ebony.
She has an asphalt company, Black Woman.
Black owned asphalt business.
Shouts out to Ebony.
Maybe she can come tell us.
as well.
But how?
Why don't we just lay the concrete, pour the concrete down, actually fix the roads?
Why not?
We've been putting on bandages for 20 plus years, fam.
Millions in asphalt.
What the hell are we doing?
And politicians want to raise.
And they want a raise.
Some say a second raise, but let's continue the budget because we're gonna get into the whole raise of it all.
All right?
We're gonna get into the whole raise of it all.
Like I said, the direct.
This directly connects to what this show has covered before.
We've talked about it.
Employee retirement.
I told y'all go look into the 2020 pension scandal.
It's some people retiring.
They getting a lump sum payment.
One person got like four million dollars.
Lump sum.
And then still had a reoccurring, amazing policy payout.
So much so.
that Tom Emmett, the county executive at the time in 2020, in 2000, it looked so bad, he had to say, I, I, I'll forfeit my payout.
And he was forced to resign.
So, you know, I'm pissed.
He had to be.
Y'all made me forfeit my payout and then I had to resign Millions of dollars we went through the timeline we went through the people who got millions millions of people Not millions of people millions of dollars Somebody said asphalt last maybe 15 years every construction company knows that the workers shake their heads
15 years.
What kind of asphalt we using the hell up here?
Fifteen.
Melody.
What educated me on what types of asphalt is because I didn't see the asphalt last 15 years.
What up y'all welcome back Welcome back welcome back to the award-winning 1017 the truth live from the American Family Insurance Studios.
It's your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the City y'all Truth Nation.
I think it's about that time
Fair enough, I didn't get you that one.
I didn't tell brother Z, I was getting ready to read it.
Truth Nation, call in.
This can't be numbered right.
We'll do this a little later.
This one can't be numbered right.
It was trying to say to call in now.
That ain't the right one, right?
That should be like the fourth one.
It don't sound right.
We'll get that.
I almost had y'all calling in for the Bryson Tiller tickets, but don't worry y'all.
We gonna prompt to this one, Brother Z. When y'all hear this sound right here.
All right, later in the show, when you hear that sound, that's when you call in.
Play it again for him, Brother Z. All right, you gonna hear that sound, that prompts you to call in.
for the Bryson Tiller tickets.
That's not the song we're asking you to name.
All right.
There will be a song playing.
All right.
And then that's the song that you're going to have to ask the answer.
But let's get back into it.
We was talking about the roads and the asphalt and and so forth.
But let's get in.
to the budget funds, three full Milwaukee Police Department recruit classes up to 65 people each, the maximum allowed.
But due to retirements and arbitration, the administration's own projections is that average sworn strength only grows from 1,565 officers in 2026 to 1,000
579 in 2027.
What the hell is that?
That's like, what, 14?
That's a net gain of just 14 officers despite funding recruit classes at full capacity.
I don't even understand how this math is math.
So what are they saying?
More people are retiring than they could hire?
Is that, is that what this math is saying?
The city has struggled for multiple years running to even find enough qualified applicants to fill the classes.
It's already funded.
Meaning the staffing problem isn't plural, purely a budget problem anymore.
It's a pipeline problem.
Money alone doesn't solve.
They was even running out.
Trying to hire people from Texas or something if I'm not mistaken Trying to hire people from Texas How residents actually are paying for this all right Johnson is proposing a property tax levy increase.
Come on Chevy.
I'm riding with you Chevy.
Let's not do it Let's have Chevy call me I got some ideas for you my boy
I actually want to see Chevy be successful as mayor.
I want to see Chevy be successful because.
I know a lot of people may not agree with how he move or whatever, but we also got to understand he inherited a lot of mess like we allow Tom Barrett to skate through with so much dog and just being good old Uncle Tom Barrett.
But if you really go back and look at like dog He didn't set the city up for success boss 18 years or something
like
Yeah, I was not a fan.
I am like come on It's like come on
And I used to be somebody that criticized him a whole lot.
I did.
But then I asked myself the question.
I was like, hey, have you ever reached out to see how you could be an assistance, be a resource before you just I'm big on not complaining if you don't have.
or if you're not offering solutions.
And back in the day, in this earlier year, I would complain without even saying, hey, bro, and that's not fair.
I don't want nobody complaining on how I'm moving in a new job and you ain't even offering no support.
And people say, oh, you got people around you for that.
That's cool, but it's still a process.
I want to see Chevy be successful.
And I don't know if...
The proposed tax levy increase But says it would stay below the rate of inflation The budget also relies on a big parking cost increases come on man We're just raising everything It already ain't no parking downtown I went to call the wrong club had me a chicken marsala
Me and the wife.
I had to drop her off and go park someplace.
It took me like 10, 15 minutes to find parking.
Then you got venues that just aid up the street parking because they want to put benches in the damn street.
As if the sidewalk wasn't enough.
But maybe that business is paying.
to take up those spaces.
I don't know.
I just hope it ain't a city expense on the taxpayers.
Supposed to be raising.
Big parking costs increases.
What does big parking cost increases mean for?
We just raised that it costs like a quarter for five five minutes of parking.
What is the quarter going to get us?
What to now?
Johnson is also publicly calling on state lawmakers to send Milwaukee more shared revenue in the next state budget cycle, meaning part of his own long term plan depends on a decision.
This city doesn't fully control David Crowley for governor.
David Crowley for governor, damn it.
And David, I'm telling you now.
Fix it, Jesus.
Fix it, Lord.
Says Chevy was the common council president.
He was never a whistleblower on Barrett while he sat and watched.
It's a, it's a damn thing.
Wink.
I don't think that's, I don't know if that's a democratic thing.
It's easy to say.
But Common Council is nonpartisan.
Respectfully, I can't tell you one Common Council member that whistleblowed.
Barry.
I can't tell you.
But we elected Tom.
18 years.
That's what we did.
We elected, we had Lena Taylor in the cut, but because y'all wanted to say she's mean.
We didn't, we didn't do it.
We didn't vote for her.
We allowed people like Chris Larson.
to be on an assembly floor.
We care so much about mental health, but we allowed him, not we, I'ma say other elected officials, allowed him to be on an assembly floor and tell this woman she hasn't took her crazy pills.
Wow, that's crazy.
Hate it.
We care about protecting black women But when the opportunity came To protect mental health to protect the black woman who was humiliated on a council floor.
I heard she was in tears I Heard she left the assembly floor in tears from demanding the pot.
Maybe I'm getting it wrong You know how sometimes when a story get to you people don't add a day on
Conclusion and all these other things to it Somebody says shared revenue Mayor Chevy canceled the census That is why there ain't no actual count to force Proved account for shared revenue Melody you might got me that I don't know the facts on that one bruh
I'd have to look deeper into that one.
I'd be
I don't know who canceled the census.
So I got K set.
Wait a minute.
Is this this?
OK, I thought this was Metcalfe Park melody.
That's who I thought that was.
Oh, no, that's not her.
So yeah, I want to see Chevy be successful But I want to see a little more creativity on how this city generates revenue man because it can't always just be off the back of us for mess ups that we didn't make Deals that we didn't make We didn't propose the 2000 pension deal we didn't hire the company that Misled
the county in 2000 and lied and hid real evaluations from the stock market.
We didn't hire them people.
And then think about it.
We're 20-something plus years later still paying the cost for somebody lying and somebody hiding vital information that put a city on the brink of bankruptcy.
Damn.
And that person only served 13 days.
13 days 30 days, I'm sorry 30 13 who the hell's count?
26 plus years of Figuring this pension crisis out and in two two thousand thirty one He said you caught that two times he slipped out now the Caribbean do be ready to trip out in two thousand I thought he wanted to tell us
That the deficit is going to be even higher.
The deficit is going to be even higher.
So this is what I'm saying, y'all, when we come back from break, when we come back from break.
We're gonna talk about what happens next and there we go talk about the city just voted to raise their own pay again While all of this is going on
When I was running for office Milwaukee business
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We talking about the money.
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We talking about the money.
Well, first what's next, right?
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Not right now, but probably the next time you hear it is when you should be calling in, all right?
But as of right now, what happens next?
We talking about the budget and after the budget, we gonna get into the raise, right?
Common Council now spends the next several weeks reviewing the proposal and filling amendments.
The finance and personnel committee has led similar amendment pushes in the past cycle at a library hours street funding.
That's one thing she did do.
I will say that Marina did push for that.
I gotta give it as hard as I be on people.
I gotta give them credit where credit is due.
Okay?
So I give them that The full Common Council is scheduled to adopt the final
2027 budget in early November.
I don't understand how all these politicians down there ain't nobody thought about how the hell we can make some money yet other than raising the cost of things for us.
What the hell is going on?
Are we not paying attention to the economy?
Are we are not paying attention to the cost of living?
Are we are not paying attention to the cost of raising a child?
Are we not paying attention that minimum wage is still $7?
We have a bunch of bad deals that Milwaukee has accepted and passed that is breaking our community.
We talked about the pension crisis.
Nobody talks about us giving away.
100% of the hotel tax that we was collecting in the city.
We gave it all away.
What could have grew to hundreds of millions of dollars?
The gap that we have to borrow from a reserve fund to fill.
We gave it away.
Wisconsin Center District got it now.
It's day money now.
Every hotel tax, every Airbnb, all of that goes to them to help keep the Wisconsin Center District good.
All right?
None of that gets to hit the north side.
None of that gets to... I'm not knocking the Wisconsin Center District because it also funds things like Visit Milwaukee.
And I get it.
We need some like Visit Milwaukee to tell the story.
Or to at least Help the narrative of this ratchet town who was going on somebody got to make it look good around here.
I guess Attract people here, but what I'm trying to get to is that why have we not looked at how can we generate revenue yet?
Different new revenues it can't just be taxing the people that live here but everybody that come in from
other cities or other counties come in, work, tear our roads up and leave.
No tolls, no nothing.
I don't understand that.
I don't understand it.
That's where I feel like our leadership lacks.
When the only thing that you got is how to to take the to raise money and fill gaps is to tax us raise the cost of parking We can't we got to be more strategic man We got to be more intentional.
We can't be lazy.
It's a bunch of lazy politicking going on right now Lot of too much traditional politicking going on right now We getting screwed
We getting screwed by bad deals that's been in place for years That we need to relook into we need to renegotiate some of these deals our deal with summerfest.
I'm sorry I'm sorry Why the city ain't getting no real revenue share off of it.
Why?
It's on city land Why
Why we gotta put so much money up into it?
Why?
The CEO of a two week show makes over four million dollars.
Why?
Why?
Why we don't got no revenue shares with a lot of these businesses that are just
continuously, annually, traditionally profiting off of the city.
And we just, I think if I'm not mistaken, Summerfest contracts should be renegotiating.
We should be renegotiating profit shares with everybody, folks.
Everybody.
1%, 2%, 5%.
I don't give a damn.
Start at 10, work our way down.
It baffles me that we don't we should be getting some streaming money, some from some offense, all the streaming that's going on.
We could be making ad money from streaming like.
I'm just a rapper.
I'm just a rapper, Frank Nitty.
The city just voted to raise their own pay again.
Right again, I should call mark myself I Should call mark my damn self Let's get into it the backstory the 2024 raise and why it had to be redone.
Okay Okay, this is answering some questions here So maybe I was wrong maybe the word on the street is wrong
It's not a it doesn't sound like it's another one says it had to be redone So in January 2024 After 16 years without a raise the Common Council and mayor gave themselves a one-time 15% pay bump Orders from about 73,000
to 84,205, the mayor from about 147,000 to 169,000, and set up a system automatically tying future elected officials raises to whatever raises generally city employees receive capped at 3% a year.
New city attorney, Evan Goyke, who unceded the previous city attorney in April 2024 election,
later determined that automatic tie system likely violated state law because it meant sitting officials were effectively voting themselves a raise anytime they approved a raise for the city employees.
That's precisely the kind of self dealing state law is designed to prevent.
They said, who do you know receives 15% to 20% raise?
Hmm?
They eating off of us 100%.
Even when I ran for office.
It's going to be a common thing.
I said, I wasn't even going to take the pay, y'all.
I said, I wasn't going to take it.
The pay.
I said, put it into the arch program.
The arch program was a program designed to take city-owned houses that I introduced You know the rapper to all the women cogs and Russell staffer and they then turned it into policy Off a conversation shots out to orders that listen and take action But see the thing is You got to fund things like that.
So they put a hundred thousand dollars into a budget for four arch programs
taking city-owned houses and putting them in the hands of local creatives, entrepreneurs, or business owners.
that wanted to transform dilapidated city owned properties into thriving places where they could either live, work, sell or showcase their art, talent or creative endeavors.
We'll be back after these messages.
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Jazzy, what up?
Welcome to the award winning one-on-one, seven of truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios.
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The next time you hear that song or that sound, rather, that would be the time for you to call in, all right?
Well, you could win two tickets to go see Bryson Tillard.
They just voted to raise their own pay again, damn it.
I was telling y'all about what I was gonna do with my pay when I ran for office.
I said I was gonna give the pay back.
Put it back into the city.
I helped with a program called the ARCH program that turned in to policy.
If I'm not mistaken, it was called the Artist Research Creative Hub.
Taking city-owned properties.
and putting them in the hands of creatives, entrepreneurs and businesses, small businesses to turn it into places where they could live or just build a space to create.
Showcase.
You know, things like that.
So what actually happened yesterday?
Let's go some comments real quick.
What are white widow?
White widow, you go gray.
Why we don't said Gorky has over 30 assistant attorneys we pay for how many slum lords Exploiting section 8 recipients has this office brought to court anyone thought so that office's job You I with me melody No problems with you.
I know you on top of it
She's dropping facts.
Social workers, case managers, jobs to report these slumlords.
Oh, that's right.
They still working from home.
You're right.
Goyki and Crowley committed to go after these slumlords in campaign speeches.
Well, somebody been in them.
I know Barada been in there.
They been having Barada in their damn their week.
I don't know who responsible for getting him to show up to his date, but.
He got him in there.
When I ran for office.
He said to attack to Barada, you're letting Ray into these apartments to talk to my resident.
I'll tell y'all, this dude Bob think he own y'all, man.
I ain't makin' it up.
I'll
show
I don't give a damn, he can't whoop me.
He can't whoop me.
I know that for 100%.
100% ain't too many fights I'ma take.
I'll take that one though.
I know that one I can win.
My son, that's another question.
Julian Strong is here now.
What actually happened?
No, where are we at with this?
You talked about the public pushback No, what actually happened yesterday Okay to fix the legal program the common council voted ten to five to replace the automatic system with fixed numbers instead an 8% raise
at the start of the next term, 2028 to 2032, followed by 2% annual increases for three years after that.
All right.
So I guess that's how they get to the same 15.
Under the new numbers, common council members would rise from 84,000 to 90,000.
The council president from 94,000 to 101.
Okay, Jose.
Big paypal, Jose.
Let me hold some.
Que paso.
My Puerto Rican brother.
No, I'm talking about Jose.
I'm talking about Jose Perez, comic council president.
He about to get a raise to 101,000 just to be comic council president and marriage Johnson on salary or whoever holds the office from 169 to 182.
And I'm gonna tell y'all this Milwaukee, if y'all ever decide to vote for me for mayor, I know what I said about
The Alderman the Common Council salary How to get a 70 back I get a 73 back even 84,000 I'll put it back a hundred thousand we had we had to talk y'all come negotiate with me man.
I ain't like that I'm up here at the truth.
I need something else to pad these bills Inflation is high All right
Nick says some of the politicians may be getting their pockets lined by these slumlords.
Might be.
All right.
They don't do enough to deserve the pay they requested.
That means you doing the right thing, Ray.
I try to, buh-bah.
I try to.
I try to.
But they be pissing me off What else we got Under the new numbers council members would oh we talked to 182 if y'all ever vote for me for me if I ever decide I don't want no problems with Chevy man, but 182 can we can we discuss it?
Can I keep on honey?
If I keep a hundred and get back 82 is that is that okay?
Is that okay?
Beach Beach like big baby.
I'm keeping all the all the bands if you the mayor about to get arranged from 160 60 bands to 182 bands if you mayor So when I ran when I ran for office, I said I wasn't gonna take the the alderman salary, right?
I said I was gonna put it back into
The Arch program.
But I said, if I'm mirror, you know, at an Alderman salary, that's like 74 Gs, you know, it's like, okay, you can get that back.
You know what I'm saying?
Overtime or whatever.
But the Alderman, you know, the mirror, that's 180 bands.
So I'm like, all right, I'll get some back.
You know, I'll get the same 80.
I'll get 80 back.
Would you get 80 back to the city or you keeping the whole 180?
You still got a hundred big baby.
I might get an 18 that they gave.
You said that.
That newly.
I refund that back.
That newly 18 they
raised.
I ain't mad at you for it.
I ain't mad at you for it, man.
The critical detail worth stating is no one currently in office, including Mary Johnson, in every sitting order receives any raise.
from this vote.
It only applies to whoever wins elections in 2028, meaning people voting on this raise are not the ones who get pay.
We might got a shot, Jazzy.
So they ain't qualified.
We ain't gonna go up there and pay, man.
At least not without winning re-election.
All them in Mark Chambers defending the vote shots out to Mark, you know, Mark for the what mark for this day.
I think was being lost in the sauce.
Hey, Marcus.
We running again.
Okay.
Say it right now.
Can't say that right now.
Because they say if you if you once you efficiently like put paperwork in, I can't do the radio no more.
I like talking mess now.
Do it to the last drop, you know.
Bob, I'm coming for you.
You won't notice.
Get that damn hip ready.
Y'all put hands on.
Bob, kick my ass.
Excuse me.
Can I say that?
Bob, whoop.
Man, that old man put hands and feet on me.
He had the ghouls out there.
They was following me, Jackie.
They followed you.
Stop acting like they ain't whooped our
town.
That
You know, he was just a rapper.
Man, well, we'll see what they think I am today.
They still think I'm Frank.
I was talking to my D for 15 minutes on the damn phone and I was like, I'm Ray.
He's like, my bad brother, I love you, Frank.
I ain't making this up.
I can't even make it up.
Alderman Mark Chambers, defending the vote.
I think what's being lost in the sauce is why we got here.
We received bad information from our previous city attorney.
These spends spent a lot of it framing this illegal correction, not a new money grab.
So that's fair to ask.
It's not.
It's not a. New raise.
It is a restructured raise from 2024.
All right.
Let me get it out.
Let me get it out, brother Z. Let me get it out.
We getting ready to do this.
What the hell is it?
What a glaze that.
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Hey, Nadia, I was going to talk to Nadia.
Like how Sherwin did.
I ain't never seen a nod yet on the call lines.
I don't even wanna go see Bryson.
Look, hey, they was waiting for Bryson all day.
They was like, to hell with this budget.
Play the button.
We down to like nine on the YouTube line.
Man, how y'all feeling, man?
We talking about this stuff real quick, man, with the budget.
Shouts out to Shaq, he's getting ready to go check out Bryson Tiller, him and the wifey man.
That is dope, that is dope.
Date night for him and the wifey man.
Sherwin going with the lady that called his show.
I think she gonna tell you him.
She was like, I like a little salt and pepper.
Sherwin, he was like, he wanted to lean in, but he had to remember he was at work.
What actually happened yesterday?
Oh no, let's talk about the real public pushback.
We talked about Mark Chambers saying, let me see if we can call Mark.
I can call Mark live on air.
Brother Z working.
No one's show almost, so we'll leave Mark alone.
Milwaukee residents Loretta Holmes reacted to the news.
It's difficult just trying to survive it.
pointing to raising costs of groceries, gas, rent, and bills.
You have your bills, you have your rent, you have family.
I don't think that's right at all.
Farmer Alderman and current Republican, Marg, Rep.
State Bob Donovan raised a sharper, more strategic objection with the city separately asking state lawmakers in Madison for more shared revenue.
The same-ass covenant.
That's all they do.
They come from that same cloth.
He sat in common counsel through a whole Bob, uh, Tom Barrett administration didn't do nothing.
Now you want to act like you push chill out.
Ain't doing nothing just like the other Bob.
But anyway, he's saying asking lawmakers in Madison for more shared revenue.
How about we at least create new streams of revenue?
We some bagging people in the damn city.
They're gonna keep back.
Yeah, it's our taxes.
Yes, but you see them folk ain't messing with us You just gonna keep bagging every year For them to be like no and if you want to raise it I want more police in your schools We don't be like let's figure out another way around this Alderman Scott Spiker one of two committees No votes, okay
Spiker said no.
Alongside Peter Burgilis said plainly he didn't believe his own constituents would support the raises given the current economy.
They probably like, well, everybody voting yes anyway, so if we vote no, it's still going to go through with a yes if we look like champions.
The direct connection to this segment, this is the exact same.
This is the exact same city, the exact same day, the exact same elected body hours after presenting a budget with a projected $52 million gap for 2027 and warning residents about tight finances and the need for more state-shared revenue the Common Council voted to lock in future raises.
for whoever holds their own seats, starting 2028.
We got two years, Jazz.
Worth being precise on air about this is the real fair defense.
Nobody currently in office benefits, all right?
So the underlying legal, that's why Bob running.
He can't get the raise if he don't win.
So he gonna get the raise, did retire, did get that backdrop pay.
I wanna see what his is.
Might I add?
Keep this in mind.
The pension crisis that we talked about from 2000 that we're still paying for.
All right.
That's only going to get worse.
There is still 800 employees that is still working under that deal that has not even retired yet.
And when they do retire, we're on the hook for a huge.
One time lump sum payment followed by whatever their pension plan is.
All right, the Milwaukee numbers stacked up.
Milwaukee's median household income was 56,792 and 2024 per census data, meaning even a ranked and what?
Ranked in file orders, current salary 84,000 already runs about 48% higher than what a typical Milwaukee household brings in before the new 2028 numbers are even factored in.
This isn't uniquely a Milwaukee fight.
Green Bay's Common Council recently went through nearly the identical debate.
Ultimately, setting 140,000 as their next mayor salary, one council member there explicitly argued Green Bay shouldn't be compared to typical Wisconsin cities because of the Packers presence.
What else we got, y'all?
Any of this off?
So, you know, it's just at this point, it's just a lot of the same.
It's just a lot of the same, y'all.
Pay more expect less city government leaders Check out Tammy Baldwin's distribution of fed money.
She got for this state Milwaukee who?
Milwaukee got chump change Southside, that's what we call it today old-school sought your Southside Latino woman, you know Women know about Bob.
I wasn't there but believe the source
All right, y'all.
It's almost that time.
I told y'all I'm just holding it down temporarily till Aunt Viv slide in this slot with Viv's view.
All right.
Up next, man.
We got tap in with Jazz.
My running mate.
Get your shoes on, Jazz.
See what district we want to start some trouble in next.
Let's see what district we want to start some troubling Nick's Never know might be yours.
I Like starting good trouble what I got a minute just 50 seconds of me just riffing I should just talk in my accent for these last 50 seconds
I call me for you, Bob.
I call me for you, Bob.
Jazzy, what we about to do, man?
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
The tap in is up next with Jazzy Meach.
Jaz Tyler.
What you talking about today, Jazzy?
History.
History.
My quote.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Tony Morrison y'all that's my time I'm out